38,465 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS, AJAS, the Calgary Youth Science Fair and the California Science & Engineering Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The Moon and the Sun have the largest gravitational effects on the Earth of all the celestial bodies. The resulting land tides may have the capability to trigger earthquakes…
CSEF · 2014
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science fair project is to determine the effects of various energy stimulants on living organisms. The reason I am doing this investigation is to determine…
CSEF · 2014
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My initial investigative question was to ask "Do people with dyslexia have better peripheral vision than people without this learning difference?" I wanted to test the perip…
CSEF · 2014
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My project is to see if ear candling actually sucks up ear wax. I believe that ear candling works because my ears get full of ear wax and my mom candles my ears and they fee…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The main goal is to design, develop, implement and test a device which could provide an early warning system for Earthquakes. The purpose of this project will be to detect a…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals As of 2008, there were 40,000 sites in the US that contained contaminants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). PCBs are a man-made organic chemical that are found every…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I know from my previous science experiment in third grade that earthworms can mix soil and sand together. My purpose for my experiment this year is to find out if earthworms…
CSEF · 2014
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to redesign a passive matrix liquid crystal display, using a flexible polymer as a substrate as opposed to glass used in commercial displays.…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment is to demonstrate the properties of eddy currents, explore the power of eddy currents, and discover things for myself. Methods/Materials The mat…
CSEF · 2014
Microbiology (General) Third Award
Objectives/Goals Type 2 diabetes is an illness where an adequate amount of insulin is not produced.Current treatments for diabetes require constant monitoring of blood glucose through inject…
CSEF · 2014
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine if left-brain and right-brain hemisphere activity could be recorded on an EEG to indicate (left brain) mental imagery/preparatio…
CSEF · 2014
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals This project was triggered by a simple challenge that my mother made to use my skills to figure out why her plants do not grow as well as those of our neighbor. Hence I deci…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals Our purpose was to ascertain whether or not parking lot and playground sediment contain compounds that can harm aquatic animals, and if they did, to determine the LC50 (or c…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this research project was to study the effect of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch on the Phoebastria immutabilis population and to bring awareness to this gr…
CSEF · 2014
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if the organic foods retain more macronutrients after cooking than the conventional foods. I believe that organic foods retain more than conven…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective was to measure the effects of diesel oil on the hatching of brine shrimp eggs and the survival of live brine shrimp. The hypothesis of this experiment was that…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The most important thing to a teenager is sleep. We want to get as much of it as possible. On school nights, we are frequently up past midnight with schoolwork, sports and e…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The focus of this project was to determine whether pesticides permethrin, carbaryl, and imdacloprid, affected mitochondrial activity and mitochondrial DNA levels in C2C12 mo…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine if plants produce less oxygen in the presence of pollution. This was thought to be true, based on the facts the stomata size…
CSEF · 2014
Plant Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals It is known that priming seeds with water can enhance the tolerance to saline growth conditions compared to seeds that are not primed. My objective was to examine the effect…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective was to prove sodium hypochlorite is a more effective water disinfectant than chloramine, a product that forms when ammonia and sodium hypochlorite react. Metho…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to investigate how the length of string affects its likelihood to be knotted. It was hypothesized that strings with longer length had higher k…
CSEF · 2014
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine how does temperature of water affect speed of electrolysis of water to hydrogen gas and oxygen gas. Methods/Materials Mass of water disappeared…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effectiveness of perceptual modality based test preparation in comparison to that of Universal Design for Learning te…
CSEF · 2014
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals For our science fair project, we will be testing two homemade desalination stills to see which one will produce water with the least amount of salt in the least amount of ti…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals With skyrocketing gasoline prices, it has become crucial to develop an energy efficient electric vehicle. The United States spent about $380 billion for imported petroleum l…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals It is hypothesized that radish seeds which are induced with DC voltages will experience a higher growth rate. Methods/Materials 5 pots, a bag of soil, a packet of radish see…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals If I were to use the process of electrolysis to extract hydrogen gas from clean H2O, would that hydrogen be able to be used as a renewable energy carrier to make environment…
CSEF · 2014
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals To investigate whether or not sports drinks such as Gatorade and PowerAde have more electrolytes than orange juice (freshly squeezed) and Coconut Water. My hypothesis was th…
CSEF · 2014
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to try to find a cheap and efficient source of alternate energy. The objective of my project was to harness the motion of waves as a source of a…